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Saturday, 14 January 2012

Strange Aliens From Outer Space?

NOTE: The following is taken from the book

Some Things Strange & Sinister. Images used

are lower res.

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Although I have, over many years,
encountered reports of Alien-Entities [AE] associated with Unidentified Flying
Objects [UFOs], or “Flying Saucers”, described as “Nordic”, ”Hairy Bellicose
Dwarf”, ’Venusian’ or even “robotic”, since the 1980s and the work of people
such as Budd Hopkins, the “Greys” seem to have taken over –allegedly millions
of people in the United States and elsewhere claiming to have been abducted by
this type.

As a young astronomer with a
strong interest in Exobiology, I knew that most astronomers who were asked
about Flying Saucers and Contactee type Nordics dismissed the reports –politely
or otherwise. It was the concensus of
opinion based on all we ‘knew’ that visiting aliens would be non-humanoid in
appearance. And, as was stated in
articles and talks and even in TV and radio interviews, ”No such reports
exist”. Even UFO researchers claimed
this. One astronomer told me: ”If there
were reports of non-humanoid creatures in UFO cases those would be the cases to
look into”.

During the 1960s and into the
1970s it was considered quite alright to investigate and research objects
flying around our skies but if you started doing the same work about AEs you
were, as the late Graham F. N. Knewstub (of the British Flying Saucer Club and
its successor the British Flying Saucer Bureau) put it “potty”. He noted however, that talking about
Contactees such as George Adamski did seem acceptable.

When Ted Bloecher started putting
together his Humanoids Catalogue [HUM-CAT] in the 1970s, Anthony Pace of BUFORA
asked me to draw up the UK
section as no one else in the British UFO Research Association [BUFORA] had the
same knowledge or files as myself. I was
rather worried as Bloecher’s paper, 1973: The Year Of The Humanoids, as well as
articles by other Ufologists, featured no non-humanoid AEs –the AEs seen at
Pascagoula, Mississippi, were the nearest it got.

Repeatedly I asked for a full
survey of cases involving AEs to look for non-humanoid reports. No one was really interested and by the
mid-1980s, Hopkins’
work had started making the “Greys” and abductions the area of research. It took a while for the UK and other parts of the Western
World to catch onto this aspect of AE study but when it did TV documentaries, films,
articles, books, magazines and a whole industry sprang up. Abduction and possible abduction reports were
coming in so fast and accepted so quickly that to even question a case resulted
in howls of derision and abuse for daring to question.

Dark Skies, The X-Files and many
TV series outlined all the ‘symptoms’ of abduction. Even one national news stand UFO magazine
editor I met later admitted that he had been abducted.

I found less and less evidence to
support abductions as one piece of evidence after another crumbled under
investigation.

In February, 2004, quietly, I
re-opened Grey Book to re-assess a great deal of the 1977-1995 Anomalous
Observational Phenomena Bureau file material.
Amongst the thousands of pages of case summaries from around the World I
found thirteen that fitted the type of case profile I was looking for:

[1] Lima,Peru,1947

[2] Flatwoods,Virginia,USA,1952

[3] Garson,Ontario,Canada,1954

[4 ] Braemar,Scotland,1958

[5 ] Denmark,1958

[6] Helsingborg,Sweden,1958

[7] Yssandon,France,1960

[8] Salta,Argentina,1963 and 1965

[9] Cordoba,Spain,1966

[10] Barcelona,Spain,1967

[11] Tivissa,Spain,1968

[12] San Marti De Tous,Spain,1968

[13] Eupora,Mississippi,USA,1973

There is one 1975 case from Wales, UK,
that fitted but is excluded as was another from the United States, the reasons for
which I will explain further on.

What is interesting is that, four
not widely reported AE incidents, [5], [6], [7] and [12] match in descriptions
to an amazing degree. With the exception of the Flatwoods, Virginia incident, now seemingly being
re-invented as an almost Roswell-like case, all the others were never fully
investigated as we might hope for today.

The Eupora, Mississippi case [13] is unique amongst the
thousands I have on file and certainly does deserve far greater study.

Between 1995-2004 I attempted to try to find
out more detail by contacting every UFO investigator or group I could find in
the countries involved. Those that did
respond fell into the following categories:

Other, more credible, organisations failed to
respond to letters, e-mails, faxes or even phone messages. This was highly disappointing considering
just how important these reports could be.
Cases [5], [6] and [7] took place over a three year period but then, if
we include [12] as being of similar AEs, then nothing similar was reported for
another eight years –could this be significant?

Unless such cases as these are
publicised then newer Ufologists may dismiss similar cases as being “too weird”
and binning the reports.

The cases I have not included, though
they are very interesting and might be added to the list later, should more
information become available are:-

[X1] Long Prairie, Minnessotta,1965

[X2] Machynleth, Powys,1975

Machynleth was excluded because
it has all the hallmarks of a possible psychological episode and, as the
witness was a a youngster, the chances are very high that he would have watched
an episode of the BBC TV series DR WHO, particularly “The Three Doctors” in which
creatures strongly resembling those described by the witness appear. For this reason there are too many doubts so
it is noted but no more.

The Long Prairie, Minnessotta
case of 23rd October, 1965, is repeatedly referred to as being an encounter with
‘robotic-like’ AEs. Unless more detail
can be found indicating biological rather than mechanical AEs were involved
then this case cannot be included.

I have attempted to draw images
of what the entities may have looked like based on the descriptions given
–other material that might exist from other sources for the Flatwoods and
Yssandon cases I have included.

The Case Summaries

[1] Near Lima, Peru. Night time,1947
Investigators: A.P.R.O.

Mr “CAV” came upon a grounded, shiney
disc-like object on an highway outside of Lima. Stopping his car, ”CAV” approached the object
on foot only to be approached by “…two incredible amoeba-like” AEs that “looked like bananas joined together. Their skin was sandy-coloured with a
towel-like texture”. In height the AEs
stood at around 5 feet 5 inches [approx. 1.6m].

A voice, in English (which he
understood), suddenly broke the silence sounding “…as if from a speaker” and told him that
they (AEs) were sexless and to demonstrate this they divided themselves like
amoeba. “CAV” was taken on a tour of the
rather barren-looking interior of the craft.
He was then escorted out and watched as the craft departed.

The witness suffered loss of
volition and appetite as well as total exhaustion.

This is all we know of the
incident. Although investigated by representatives of James and Coral
Lorenzen’s Aerial Phenomena Research Organization [A.P.R.O.], this case never
appeared in their ground-breaking 1967 book, Flying Saucer Occupants or their
1969 book UFOs: The Whole Story. Even Gordon W Creighton’s chapter on Latin American
encounters in the book The Humanoids [196 ] does not list this case. Back in the 1970s James Lorenzen did confirm
the case was dealt with by A.P.R.O but that was as far as I got.

Is it possible that the case was
just too weird for the more conservative Ufologists to handle or put their name
behind? Most people will be familiar
with the case from the book by John A. Keel, Strange Creatures From Time And
Space –an author not too concerned with the weirdness of his subject matter.

Today, of course,”CAV” would be
taken to a hypnotherapist or “abduction specialist” and undergo hypnotic
regression. However, in 1947, hypnosis
was a thing of horror movies. It is
doubtful “CAV” is even alive today; if
he was in his twenties in 1947 he could now be in his eighties.

What is so striking is the fact
that AE encounters in association with UFOs was unheard of in the 1940s and I
cannot find any popular movies from that period in which AEs of this type
appear from which “CAV” could have been influenced. The description has not, as far as I am
aware, been repeated since. The
description of the interior of the craft looking barren seems to be in-keeping
with the appearance of the AEs.

This case really does need
further research and I am hoping that somewhere there exist A.P.R.O. records
with a full case report.

For High Strangeness this case
deserves a 3 rating (5 being the highest possible).

[2] Flatwoods, West Virginia,USA. Evening. 12th September, 1952

The “Flatwoods Monster” case is a
classic, though it appears to be under-going something of a re-telling in
certain quarters. Ivan T. Sanderson
personally investigated the case and the detailed report can be found in his
196 book Uninvited Visitors. For this summary, however, I would like to
quote the account by James and Coral Lorenzen which appeared in their book , Flying
Saucer Occupants, and their chapter in The Humanoids:

“At sunset…a group of youngsters
saw what appeared to be a ‘meteor’ land on the top of a nearby hill. Similar
observations of a low-flying ‘meteor’ were made in that vicinity on the same
night,along with many others along the central Atlantic seaboard.

“The boys decided to
investigate,and started toward the hill.
Along the way they stopped at the home of Mrs.Kathleen May,and she,her
two sons and a seventeen-year-old National Guardsman,Gene Lemon,joined the
group and they made their way to the top of the hill.

“The first thing the crowd
observed was a large globe or sphere beyond the crest of the hill. One of the boys said it was ‘as big as a
house’. Another boy said he heard a
‘throbbing sound’ ,and still another said he heard a ‘hissing sound’. At about this juncture in the sequence of events,one
of the group saw what was thought to be an animal’s eyes in the branches of a tree and
shone a flashlight beam toward it. The
whole crowd then saw what appeared to be a huge figure just under the lower
branches of the tree. It seemed to be
about ten or fifteen feet tall,had a blood-red ‘face’,and glowing
greenish-orange ‘eyes’. The lower part
of the ‘thing’ was in shadow but Mrs. May
thought she saw clothinglike folds.
The whole apparition ‘floated’ slowly toward the observers,who fled
hysterically down the hillside in the direction from which they had come.

“Some of the group were violently
ill during the rest of the night,and this fact was verified by the editor of
the local paper. He was one of several who searched the hill shortly
afterward,but found nothing. On the
following day,however,he and others found marks on the ground including two
parallel skid marks and a large circular area of flattened grass. A strange and irritating odor lingered close
to the ground….”

Oddly, the Lorenzens noted that:

“The Flatwoods incident is one
which was accepted by researchers, partly because of the large number of
observers and supporting evidence, but we suspect that the nonhuman
characteristics of the ‘entity’ was a large factor. By and large, researchers in the United States
have hesitated to accept and even strongly resisted the idea of humanoid UFO
operators…”

Making the lack of reference to
the “CAV” case unusual. The Flatwoods case is desperately in need of re-appraisal.
And when I say “re-appraisal” I mean independent of the almost
Roswell-like following the case has gained over the last decade. There are rumours of secondary objects seen
crashing and much more.

[3] Garson, Ontario, Canada. June or July, 1954

Ennio La Sarza, aged twenty-five,
a miner, reported his sighting of a disc-shaped object and AEs to the Royal
Canadian Air Force [RCAF] who investigated but refused to publicly comment, though
a copy of their final report did go to the USAF Project Blue Book and also to
the Air Ministry in London, though the latter copy it appears has been lost.

La Sarza claims that he saw a
“huge disc” descend from the sky north of the nickel mining centre of Garson, one
Friday in either late June or early July.
The object landed and from it emerged three AEs “…all 13 feet tall with
ears like spurs and three sets of arms”.
This is all we know of the AEs.

From a distance, La Sarza asked
who they were and where they came from?
In response “…they fixed me with a hypnotic stare until I fainted: when
I came to they and the ship had vanished.”

One has to ask why La Sarza
would fake a reported UFO encounter and make it so brief –ending with him
passing out? How much time had elapsed?

This case begs for a new
investigation and I am currently attempting to discover whether the RCAF has
their report archived or if it was destroyed as per normal disposal of
documents after a certain period.

With so many veteran UFO
investigators from Canada
now dead and groups having disbanded with their records scattered it may well
prove very difficult to track down details of this case. I should note that a number of investigators
believe La Sarza was suffering from a mental delusion.

[4] Braemar, Dee-side, Scotland.
November, 1958

The Territorial Army were on a week-end
exercise just outside of Tarland, between Braemar and Ballatar, some 60 miles
from Aberdeen. Two of the young TA men were assigned the
duty of guarding a hill-top and dug a trench to lie in. The duty should have lasted only a few
hours. As dawn was breaking, the men
heard a “strange gurgling” sound a few hundred yards away and behind some trees. Because the noise continued the men decided
to investigate.

Leaving their position the men moved in the
direction of the noise when two “large figures” came stumbling toward
them. The young men were paralyzed with
fear; the two figures were at least 2.10 - 2.40m [7-8 ft] tall; they were
dressed in rather unusual clothing that seemed to make it difficult for the AEs
to move about. The guttural sounds
appeared to be the AEs talking to each other.

The young men now turned and fled down the
hill to the main Tarland Road. As they ran along the road one of the men
looked back as they heard a “swishing” sound.
A huge, disc-shaped and glowing object was behind them and only a few
feet above the ground –the two ran faster.
The object then swooped up above them and disappeared quickly from
sight, leaving a trail of sparks behind.

A temporary Post Office engineers hut was the
first sign of normality the men encountered –several engineers were
within. The men banged on the door
begging to be let in. Opening the door, the
engineers let the men in and because of the state they were in, made them rest
a while.

When I initially read this I assumed that
someone from the Flying Saucer Review [FSR May-June,1959] must have followed
this account up. Because it was, potentially,
one of the best in the UK. In the 1970s, Charles Bowen, then editor of
FSR, told me he had checked: no one had investigated –but he did have the news
item. It was suggested I try UFO groups
from that time.

The main group would have been
the British Flying Saucer Bureau [f.1952]: they had not looked into it.

In fact, I tried everything and
everyone I could. The case had gone no
further–even in FSRs Special Issue, later
a book, The Humanoids [Neville spearman,
London, 1969], only
the details from eleven years before were quoted.

We do not even have any details of the AEs
appearances apart from the scant ones given in 1959. This case has become a priority to look into
and I am hoping the men are not just still alive but living in the same
area.

[5] Denmark, 1958 [?]

So far all I have been able to
ascertain is that Danish officials sat in on the Helsingborg
case interviews as a woman in their country had been involved in a similar
encounter. I am currently trying to
locate records from Denmark.

[6] Helsingborg – Hoganas, Sweden.
03:00 hrs. 2nd December, 1958

Two young men, Hans Gustafsson
and Stig Rydberg, were driving home from
a dance through a thick mist along a
road lined on either side by forestry.
At one point the mist cleared and the two men observed a strange
light. Leaving their car, the men set
off to investigate.

What Gustafsson and Rydberg saw
when they got closer was a disc of peculiar, shimmering light resting on 60 cms
high “legs” –the light from this object was seen to change colour. Before either man could say a word they were
suddenly confronted by a number of “blobs”, described as looking like
“protozoa”, a bit darker than most and a bluish colour. These “blobs” were jumping around the object
like animated blobs of jelly but then a more frightening situation arose.

The “blobs” got close to the men
and began to envelope them with a “powerful suction force” attempted to pull
them toward the object. The drag of
these “blobs” was described as “terrific” and a stench like either ether or
burnt sausages was noted. Rydberg’s arm
sank right up to the elbow into one of the “blobs”: he said that these blobs
almost seemed to read his mind and parried every move he made. The strength of these “blobs” was, according
to the men, was not very great but it was the manner in which “they” wielded
what strength they had.

After moments of struggling, Rydberg
broke free and ran toward his car, with two of the “blobs” closely behind
him. Flinging open the car door, Rydberg
slammed his arm down on the car horn in the desperate hope that someone might
be nearby and help. On the horn
sounding, however, the “blobs” began to move off. Gustafsson, meanwhile, was tenaciously
holding on to a fence post –stretched out horizontally as they “blobs” tried to
drag him off. These “blobs”, however, also
retreated back to the object as the car horn sounded and having entered it, the
object then took off and was soon gone from sight.

Badly shaken, the two men went
home but after several days of being unable to shake-off the ether-like smell,
suffering from a piping whistle in their ears and “queasy stomaches”, Gustafsson
and Rydberg reported the incident.

For some twelve hours the two men
were questioned by officers from the Swedish Defence Staff, doctors, psychologists
and police officers. Gustafsson and
Rydberg stuck to their stories and even offered to take their interrogators to
the site in question, which they
did. Investigators found tripod markings
and these were photographed.

A few points to note here: first,
despite sticking to their stories and the physical traces, the case was later
pronounced a hoax but with no evidence to support this. Secondly, during the witness interrogation, Danish
officials, possibly Military Attaches, took part or at the very least sat in on
interviews: the reason being that a Danish woman had been involved in a similar
encounter. Thirdly, there was a British
involvement; either a British official was present or a British agency was
consulted. Certainly a copy of the end
report was sent to the UK,
according to the late Air Vice Marshal Sir Victor Goddard.

Why would Danish officials ask to
sit in on interviews if it was believed to be a hoax –and, surely, the fact
that they were aware of a similar case in their country negates the hoax
theory?

This case really did need urgent
re-appraisal and I contacted Swedish Ufologists who forwarded case reports and
I learned that alcoholism and much more was involved –something that Ufologists
and FSR would have known at the time, yet FSR never produced a follow-up in
English to what has become a “Classic” UFO case.

As for the Danish incident I can
find no further information and the report sent to the Air Ministry, which
revealed the truth about Helsingborg, would
probably no longer exist. But I live in
hope.

Monsieur and Madame Plumauville
were taking a detour around the Puy d’Yssandon (a peak), a winding road that
was bordered on the right by a meadow with many walnut trees. On the left, above the road, were meadows and
cultivated fields. As they approached a
left hand turn the slope was wooded. It was at this point that M. Plumauville
noticed a reddish-violet light.

The light had no precise outlines
and was level with the trees to the right of the road. Initially, he thought the light source was a
long way off but, as it suddenly rose, he realized that the object was no
further away than 100 metres. He then
saw, on the right hand side of the road and lit-up by the car headlights, a
“mass” the size of a sack of potatoes which seemed to be rapidly contracting
and collapsing inwardly upon itself. It
was now that he and his wife saw a number of smaller (rugby football size) but
similar “humpy” mis-shapen masses; these were moving about in the grass ditch
beside the road. Two of these objects
then crossed the road in front of the car and moved into the bracken on the
left hand-side ditch.

The car was not travelling very
fast but had not stopped -M. Plumauville
and his wife are certain that they did not hit any of the objects. The reddish-violet light in the sky vanished
and there the sighting ended.

Madame Plumauville, it must be
noted, did not see this reddish-violet light, only three or four of the
“things”, noting that one was larger than the others. According to Joel Mesnard, who reported on
the case for The Flying Saucer Review [FSR vol.20/no.3,pp.14-16], Mdme.
Plumauville “…compares their form to that type of big knobbly potatoes which have
globular excrescences. The movement of
the objects put her in mind of the movement of a sack with a person or an
animal inside it. She thinks that it was
this deformation that enabled the shapes to move, by contraction, by the
inflation and deflation of their swellings.
The bodies were not luminous in themselves, and were only visible because the car
headlights lit them up. Their colour was
a light brownish-grey, comparable to the colour of wrapping paper or a jute
sack, but their surface looked smooth.”

There are few details as the
sighting lasted “only seconds”. Mesnard
notes a similarity to the Helsingborg and San
Marti de Tous. Were it not for FSR and
the translations carried out from foreign publications by Gordon W. Creighton, we
might never have come across these cases.
And as Creighton noted at the time, there were many more cases and
articles awaiting translation.

What was really needed was for
follow-ups on cases featured in FSR that would show us which cases were hoaxes
(as at Helsingborg) or due to psychological
problems (La Sarza). The one thing I
have always found true about some Ufologists and publications is that, after building
up a case, very few if any, are willing to then admit “it was not a genuine UFO
incident”.

In the Plumauville case, however,
I have so far found nothing negative. So
there remains hope?

[8] Salta,
Argentina.
Daytime.1963 and C. 4th October, 1965

On or about the 4th October, 1965,
three school children,Santos Vallejos, Antonia Aparti and Adela Sanchez, were
on their way to the Libertador General San Martin School when, at a place where
the road runs through wooded hills they noticed “several creatures of short
stature, greenish skin and only remotely resembling human beings.”

These “creatures” attempted to
catch the children, who fled in terror to the school. Here the trio told their story to the
headmaster. The headmaster commented
that a similar incident took place two years previously, in 1963, in that area.

The original source for this
report was La Cronica Matutina (Buenos
Aires) of 5th October, 1965. This was later translated by Gordon Creighton
for his chapter on alien entity cases from Latin America
in The Humanoids. No details are given
of the 1963 incident nor is there any reference to UFO investigators having
looked into the case.

We have here the names of the children who
would now be in their 50s (?), the school name as well as the location. This
should make it less complicated to track them down. Although seemingly a case we might accept
because of the number of children the problem of memories after so many years
is a big one and for that reason, unless further back-up can be found, I have
to voluntary exclude this report but with a big question mark.

[9] nr Cordoba,
Spain. ?Daytime. 16th May,1966

Snr. Manuel Hernandez was
returning from a field near Cordoba
when he observed a disc-shaped object land some 100 metres from him. As he watched, Snr. Hernandez observed small
AEs which ‘looked like’ birds leave the object briefly. These AEs then re-entered the object which
took off.

That, incredibly, is all we have
on this case. It is the third from Spain involving
non-humanoid AEs and yet there is little information. Spain has always, or rather did, have
some of the best investigators of UFO cases, drawing up detailed maps, taking
photographs of sites and testing areas for radiation –and for furnishing well
detailed, witness approved drawings of objects and AEs. I cannot believe that this is all that exists
on this case. This case really does need
much more research and, hopefully, we might find a written, detailed account
that can be translated.

The original report was from
Paris-Jour of 18th May,1966 and then Magonia 769 before Jacques Vallee included
it in his summary of AE reports from Spain for Flying Saucer Review
Special Issue no.4, August, 1971.

[10] nr Barcelona, Spain.
?DT. 3rd December, 1967

An un-named woman near[?] Barcelona reported
encountering a ‘cactus-like’ entity with four members/limbs which left deep
traces in the ground. The witness later
refused to comment on her encounter.

Veteran investigator Antonio
Ribera looked into this incident so I am assuming there are far more details
–somewhere. The case was noted by Vallee
in FSR Special Issue no.4. However, when
I contacted some ten UFO groups in Spain none knew of the case and, sadly,
with no further data has to be yet
another “possible” but filed away.

A man by the name of Mateu, who
lived some 7 kilometres from Tivissa, had risen to take care of his cattle when
he saw a light, rather like a reflection from a car, and about 1 kilometre
away. Mateu called to his wife and, thinking
that a car may have broken down or stalled, walked towards the object
accompanied by his dog.

On getting closer, the witness
noticed that it was not a car but an hemi-spherical object hovering about 1
metre above ground. The object was
described as giving off a formidable amount of light. On the far side of the object Mateu saw two
‘things’ some 100 metres distant from the object and ‘running’ toward it. These AE resembled octopuses, about 1 metre
tall in height and with ‘four or five legs’; very light in colour and
thoroughly ‘disgusting’, according to Mateu.

A large area of burned grass was
found in the area, however, two similar but older areas of burnt grass were
found some distance away. On three
occasions watches stopped at the site –the burned grass and watch stopping was
also observed by an Austrian couple camping in the area.

Originally reported in
Tele-Express, 27th August, 1968, the case was, again, reported on in FSR
Special Issue no.4.

I have to wonder whether the
description of the woman from Barcelona
would be anything like that given by Mateu? If the descriptions did match then
that would really be something to look at.

An anonymous witness was driving
along a mountain road from Barcelona
to Coloma de Queralt on a clear night when he suddenly observed a yellow
light. The light was a dome shaped
object which was illuminating pine trees on the top of a hill. Reaching a level area, he was able to see the
object clearly and decided to investigate.
Getting out of the car, the witness climbed about 50 metres above the
road when he saw four shapes.

These ‘shapes’ were described as
‘four shapes of beings or objects, giving off metallic reflections’. They were some 80 cms tall and moved toward
the object, presumably entering it. The
object ascended, showing many colours and making a deafening noise. Within a short time the object was just a
point in the sky.

This is all Vicente-Juan
Ballester Olmos tells us in his analysis of these reports with Jacques
Vallee. Even the described appearance of
the AEs is not dealt with though an illustration gives them an appearance
matching cases [4], [5] and [6], decribed herein. In Ballester Olmos and Vallee’s ‘catalogue
survey’ twenty-six [26] AE cases are covered in just over 14 lines. We need to refer to Creighton for a little
more data.

In his footnotes to the Yssandon
case, Creighton tells us:

“…A Spanish
gentleman,designated only by the pseudonym of

‘Miguel Costa’,saw four weird shiney grey
metallic objects shaped

like the figure ‘8’ moving up the side of
a conical hill

near Barcelona…the
‘8’ shaped figures seem to have hastened up

the hill,traveling in the expansion-retraction
(says ‘retration’) fashion

used by worms and maggots,and to have
entered the large craft which

then moved off and was out of sight in a
flash.”

This movement description seems
to make it more than a match for details from Helsingborg
and the other cases. None of these cases was widely enough reported, with the
exception of the Swedish encounter [which we know we can ignore], to influence
later reports.

Again, though, contemporary
Spanish UFO groups claimed no knowledge of the incident and pulled out the
excuse so ridiculed when given by the U.S. Air Force or Ministry of Defence:

”The amount of time that has
elapsed makes this case impossible to re-investigate”. Which makes it another interesting but
struck-out report.

[13] Eupora, Mississippi, USA. NT. 17th October, 1973

Night time (no exact hour given) and two
UFOs were observed near the above location, by several witnesses in a car. One object hovered in the sky overhead while
the other landed on the highway just over 100 yards [103m] from the vehicle, the
engine and lights of which now died.

An opening appeared on the object
and an AE appeared; it was noted that it had to hold on to a handrail. The entity had a wide mouth, flipper like
feet and what appeared to be webbing between the legs. Even more strange were the feather-like
structures on its back which gave the impression of opening and closing when
the entity moved.

The entity then re-entered the object
which took off. The car electrics then
began to function again.

The feather-like structures on
the back could have been some form of breathing apparatus or gill-like
organs. The fact that the object landed,
AE exited and then re-entered makes me ask whether all time could be accounted
for? It would be interesting to see any
witness sketches or a full report [?] on this incident. At a time when humanoid type entities were
being reported, one has to ask why hoaxers would go for such an unusual entity
type never before or since reported?

Originally reported in The
Columbus [Mississippi]
Triangle Advertiser of 24th October, 1973, the case was also mentioned in Ray
Palmer’s Flying Saucers Magazine no.85, p.38, 1973 and also in David Webb’s ,1973: The Year Of
The Humanoids, pp.9 & 13. Contact [UK]
UFO Register 5/1 & 2, p.62 also noted the incident. This would have to have a High Strangeness
Rating of 5+ if genuine.

So far, these are the
non-humanoid cases we have to look into and there are those that we now know
are dismissable as hoaxes or “psychological”.
A more data lucrative source for such cases might be the Catalogue of
Extraterrestrial Humanoid Types by Brazilian researcher Jader U.
Pereira,reprinted in the French journal Phenomenes Spatiaux but never printed
in English as far as I am aware.

I think it important that a call
out be made to all investigators and researchers world-wide to open up old
files and look for similar cases to those in this paper or,more importantly, make
known any non-humanoid cases they have investigated or come across.

Somewhere out there could be the report that will give those
interested the proof they need.